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Upgrading Existing ASP.NET 5 previous versions to Beta8

Last month Microsoft announced the availability of ASP.NET 5 Beta8. This release greatly expands the supported surface area of .NET Core on OS X and Linux. You can now use networking, cryptography and globalization features cross-platform. Adding to that it also includes some awesome improvements to ASP.NET 5, DNX and the Web tools.

Now if you are working or exploring previous versions of ASP.NET 5 before or if you are following my previous articles about ASP.NET 5 and wanted to move your app to the latest beta version of ASP.NET 5 ( which is beta8 as of this writing) then for sure you will run into issues about references. This
post will walk you through of the few steps on how to upgrade your existing version to beta8 so don't panic ;)

If you already have an existing web.config then make sure to modify the configuration same as above. The web.config file adds the HttpPlatformHandler to your application and configures the handler to forward requests to a DNX process. Visual Studio handles setting up the DNX_PATH environment variable to point to the appropriate DNX version for your application.